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Students living with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)-a new study| Nov 24th, 2022
For almost 20 years, I have been a school nurse. During one of my first years as a school nurse, I met a student with what health care providers were then calling pseudoseizures. While many school personnel were very supportive of this student, there were just as many who were NOT. I heard comments about...
Posted by on Nov 14th, 2022 in News | 0 comments

Service animals for people living with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES): some thoughts

I get asked about service dogs for PNES quite a bit and over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to observe my patients’ service dogs and emotional support animals in action. The ones who are...
Posted by on Aug 30th, 2022 in News | 0 comments

Moral injury in female US combat veterans diagnosed with PNES

For this month’s blog post, we have invited a young researcher to share her call for research subjects on this site.  This research has been approved by an institutional review board and is completely...
Posted by on Feb 10th, 2022 in News | 0 comments

Current research projects for persons diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also...

One of the ways in which we can help improve the lives of those living with PNES or dissociative seizures is through scientific research.  Fortunately, in the last couple of decades, there has been a...
Posted by on Nov 22nd, 2021 in News | 1 comment

Please join me in celebrating the 2021 winners of the Lorna Myers PNES scholarship!

This year, the Epilepsy Alliance of America awarded eight fantastic women scholarships to assist them in pursuing their education. The main criteria for this award is that the applicant must have a diagnosis...
Posted by on Jul 17th, 2021 in News | 5 comments

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)/ functional seizure (FS) conference 2021!  It is back on-...

For six years straight, the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group (NEREG), hosted an annual PNES conference for patients, caregivers, and in the later years, for health professionals too. Our last conference was...
Posted by on Jun 30th, 2021 in News | 3 comments

Meet the new Executive Director of FND Hope USA

There is so much that we need to do to improve the lives of those living with PNES.  We definitely need to increase treatment options and to ensure a growing number of clinicians are available to treat this...

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